There is pathos and drama in 'Half Girlfriend.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Relationship movies are often made for a female audience.
Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.
What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
I suppose 'This Little Life' and 'Brick Lane' both have things in common in that they have a female protagonist very much at the centre of the story, and they're subjectively told.
Right when 'Liv and Maddie' had started, there was no roadmap for how to do a show where one girl played two. It's just not something that is often done, so we had nothing to refer to.
Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction.
No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.
Shelley Jackson's 'Half Life' is the textual equivalent of an installation, a multivocal, polymorphous, dialogic, dystopian satire wrapped around a murder mystery wrapped around a bildungsroman.